MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry

Sumo Digital’s Nottingham offices have picked up the former art director for deceased developer Lionhead. Kelvin Tuite worked on a number of titles at therecently closed studioduring his three years there, having previously been employed at EA, Deepmind and Bullfrog, contributing to franchises such as the Harry potter spin-offs and …

After debuting in pole position, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End holds the crown this week. Sales of Sony’s adventure title fell 78 per cent week-on-week. Meanwhile, sales of Bethesda’s Doom fell just 35 per cent in its second week on sale – a very impressive figure for the shooter. The …

Kelvin Tuite moves to studio working Crackdown 3 and Dead Island 2

Capcom has banned Team YP from all Capcom Pro Tour events, with a new rule that forbids sponsors of “adult content”. The new rules that were published at the end of last week, state that Capcom will not allow any players who are sponsored by “adult content sponsors, such as …

Capcom has banned Team YP from all Capcom Pro Tour events, with a new rule that forbids sponsors of adult content”. The new rules that were published at the end of last week, state that Capcom will not allow any players who are sponsored by adult content sponsors, such as …

Turner and WME | IMG, the two companies running ELEAGUE, have partnered with Twitch in order to broadcast the upcoming competition on the streaming platform. The multi year deal means all the live matches from ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch along with on demand content. Each week will see …

The first ever eGames event will take place in Rio de Janeiro on August 15th and 16th. Taking place slap bang in the middle of the Rio Olympics, the event will be held at British House in Parque Lage, Rio. The location is at the foot of the Corcovado, home …

The UK arm of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has revealed that over 100m has been raised for projects since the site first launched in 2012. The money is the cumulative total of more than 1.8m pledges made by over 1.2m backers in the last four years. The average pledge was 53.80, …

The busy May release schedule could result in healthy sales throughout the summer. Speaking to MCV, the narrative designer for Homefront: The Revolution, Stephen Rhodes, said that many people will be unable to afford all of the games launching this month. Thus, consumers will continue to buy them throughout the …

With Microsoft IP lining up to make the jump from console to PC, the timing of Halo’s return to the Windows platform has been an ever pressing question. And now we kind of have the answer. Microsoft has not announced a PC port of Xbox One title Halo 5, but …